UNDERSTAND THIS
Job 1:1-8

In the beginning of the book of Job (Job 1:1), Job is described as a blameless man and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. Later in the same chapter, God testified of Job, “Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” (Job 1:8) What else could be said when God testifies for a man just like He did for Job? With this description, and the testimony, of God about Job, it is possible to think that a man like Job has arrived in the things of the LORD. However, in the last chapter of the book Job, he confessed a lack of understanding. He said “I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.(Job 42:5) It could be hard to believe that such a man that God, Himself, testified about as a servant that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless, and upright man, one who fears God, and shuns evil (Job 1:8) will come out, and confess lack of understanding. With Job’s confession, it is clear that whenever a man thinks he has arrived in the things of the LORD, he has ultimately checked out into deprivation from entering where God is taking him. Paul clearly nailed it in his warnings in, 1Corinthians 12:12, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” When a believer assumes to have arrived, that believer will resume to be deprived. Paul could not have spelled it out better than he did in different ways. The apostle Paul, as much as he was a general in the field of God’s mission, did not pretend or assume to have arrived at the goal of calling. Paul declared in Philippians 3:13-14, “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, for getting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” The point here is for believers to know how to lower to their shoulder, and not allow it rise above their head. If you have been privileged enough by God to give two or three revelations that came to pass in deed, and in truth. It is not a liberty for you to go on thinking that you have arrived or taken the place of God’s glory. God is still God, and He can bring you back, and beyond, from where He has brought you.
Prayer for today: Father, I ask this day that You open my eyes, my ear,s and every area of my life that I may fully understand Your ways.